Those that can't get through to Rena's page, please be so kind as to mention your type of Internet service (cable/DSL/dialup) and provider (local ISP/AOL/Earthlink). It's probably as important as browser. Some dialup services offer "accelerated" access which works by the dialup company actually locally caching the most popular web sites on their own servers and delivering you the cache (like a dumbed down version of akamai). Buuut, go somewhere less popular and it has to retrieve it the regular way. I'm not a net god, but this sounds fishy.